Name | CVE-2020-1738 |
Description | A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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ansible (PTS) | bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.17+dfsg-0+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 7.7.0+dfsg-3+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 10.1.0+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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ansible | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802164
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67796
Marked unimportant as for exploitation it requires already a remote that is
compromised, cf. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67796#issuecomment-614656017